Suggesting that, in light of an enduring and widely observed academic performance gap between blacks and whites, such gap may be attributable to genetics is to simply explore a scientific hypothesis to explain a persistent, observed phenomenon.

Toward the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, after Bateson had coined the term genetics for the emerging new field of transmission studies in 1906, Wilhelm Johannsen codified this distinction by introducing the notions of genotype and phenotype, respectively, for these two spaces.

Chief of privacy Harriet Pearson simply inserted the term genetics into IBM’s existing equal opportunity and diversity policies that covered other types of discrimination based on age, gender, and other factors.

Pedro Antonio Arraes, who is president of Embrapa and received his doctorate in genetics and plant breeding at the University of Wisconsin, said Embrapa's role is to improve production per acre so Brazil uses its land efficiently.